For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know. --W.E.B. Du Bois

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics.--Lawrence Krauss

We... know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.--Henri Poincaré